Germany and France Demand to Know Why They Were Being Spied On

European politicians are taking their Sunday morning coffee with a side of outrage over the fact that the National Security Agency has been spying on them. Germany and France in particular are demanding answers over why the NSA would want to listen to their phone calls.

European politicians are taking their Sunday morning coffee with a side of outrage over the fact that the National Security Agency has been spying on them. Germany and France in particular are demanding answers over why the NSA would want to listen to their phone calls.

But members of the European Union are quite upset because their relationship with the U.S. is supposed cozier than the frosty relationship between the U.S. and Russia. Germany and France seem really miffed over this whole spying deal. They thought they were exempt from surveillance because they are allies at the end of the day. "These facts , if confirmed, would be totally unacceptable," Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius told Le Monde. "We expect the U.S. authorities to stand up as soon as possible the legitimate concerns raised by the revelations of the press." German politicians are also demanding an explanation from the U.S. for why they were targeted. German's justice minister released a statement comparing the spying to Cold War distrust. "It must ultimately be immediately and extensively explained by the American side whether media reports about completely disproportionate tapping measures by the US in the EU are accurate or not," Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (above) said. "It’s beyond our imagination that our friends in the US consider the Europeans as enemies," she said.